Baltimore’s police commissioner blames rising violence on a “complete disdain for human life”

Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison blamed the city’s widespread violence on “young individuals carrying firearms” and “a blatant disrespect for human life” on Saturday.

According to The Baltimore Sun, four people were killed in multiple gunshots in Baltimore on Saturday and Sunday, including a teenager. A 17-year-old boy was killed and a 17-year-old girl was injured in a gunshot at the city’s Inner Harbor along the waterfront promenade.

According to authorities, both were rushed to the hospital, where the boy died and the girl remained in stable condition.

“Once again, this has been a needless tragedy,” Harrison told reporters Saturday night.

“It’s about young individuals carrying firearms, young people who are prepared to use those guns in crowds indiscriminately.”

“It’s about them having a complete disrespect for human life, as well as a complete lack of respect and disregard for authority and law enforcement, who were right here in the block where everything happened.”

According to police, there were roughly 20 cops in the neighborhood at the time of the incident.

“This is about doing it right in front of cops,” Harrison added. “This is not just startling, but also aggravating and infuriating. We want to catch whoever did this because more people may have been injured.”

Two additional males were slain in a triple shooting in Southeast Baltimore later Saturday, and a woman was discovered dead of an apparent gunshot wound in her vehicle early Sunday morning, according to authorities.

Following the Inner Harbor massacre, Democratic Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott issued a statement saying his “heart is with the adolescent victims and their families.”

“I appreciate the quick reaction of BPD officers, who arrived on the scene in under a minute,” the mayor said. “I’m appalled that this epidemic is still wreaking havoc on our community.

Another senseless act of violence in our city takes another life.”

“We can do better; I will continue to press every public safety department to do more, but it will also need all of us to say enough is enough and that we will not accept or enable violence in our city.

Because the stakes are too high and the need is too pressing, we must all work together to make Baltimore a safer place “Scott further stated

.In mid-May, ten people were slain in a mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and this week, 19 students and two teachers were slaughtered at Robb Elementary School in Texas.